With crowd labor markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk for short), oDesk, or Clickworker, it is relatively easy to access a large, distributed workforce with different skill and pay levels on demand. The crowd processes tasks which range from simple repetitive email tagging to creative...

This report studies the impact of changing value systems on the EU research and innovation policy. Starting from the European Charter of Fundamental Rights, it investigates the societal values which directly or indirectly concern EU research and innovation policy. The study presents the most...

It is our aim to illustrate a picture of the online participation behavior of German Internet users. We study today’s forms of online participation in two selected fields: politics and the economy. The study is built upon 13 types of opportunities to participate. The outcome is based on a TNS...